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Update: Sinkhole 52,000 gallons mystery crude oil collected, shocking growth exposed
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just did some math did you know that 500 billion cubic feet of natural gas all exploding at once would generate combustion energy that of 133~BILLION cubic meters x 39 Megajoules so=
5187000000000 megajoules of energy..... hahahahahhaahahhaahhahhahah biggest boom of our lives.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25870406 You sure? 5.187 TRILLION megajoules or 5.18700 x 10(18)? Aren't we talking end of the planet at that point? We'd be talking bigger than this, right? [ link to en.wikipedia.org] 1 Gigaton of TNT = 4.184×10(18) J But you're talking on the order of over a million times that (megajoules)? Me thinks your calculations may be a tad off. At least I hope so. Is there a math whiz in the house? [ link to en.wikipedia.org] Do the math yourself Quantities of natural gas are measured in normal cubic meters (corresponding to 0 °C at 101.325 kPa) or in standard cubic feet (corresponding to 60 °F (16 °C) and 14.73 psia). The gross heat of combustion of one cubic meter of commercial quality natural gas is around 39 megajoules (≈10.8 kWh), but this can vary by several percent. This comes to about 49 megajoules (≈13.5 kWh) for one kg of natural gas (assuming 0.8 kg/m^3, an approximate value).[citation needed] Commercial quality is going to be much more refined then this gas so eliminate some portion for that. But I don't think that's too far off...
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